Planting seeds & avoiding weeds: Research in sustainable food systems & planetary health

Food is vital for good health and well-being, but it also plays a huge role in the natural world. Modern food systems are polluting the air, water, and soil, and are a big contributor to climate and environmental change. Our food production is also at risk from a warming, degraded, and more unpredictable world, with extreme weather events leading to increasing food shortages, hunger and malnutrition. 

Professor Rosie Green and Professor Tafadzwa Mabhaudhi will take us through their different journeys towards becoming professors in food and sustainability, and, along the way, becoming part of the climate change and planetary health research movement. Coming from very different career backgrounds and countries, they will talk about how their early choices led them both to LSHTM and to working together researching food system solutions that will benefit people's health and the health of the planet.